C/Supt. Michael LeSage

Michael LeSage

Chief Superintendent - Acting CO 'O' Division
Royal Canadian Mounted Police

Chief Superintendent Michael LeSage assumed the role of “O” Division (Ontario) Criminal Operations Officer in January, 2017.
Chief Superintendent Michael LeSage was born and raised in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, and is a member of Garden River First Nation. C/Supt. LeSage is married with four children. He spent the first five years of his RCMP career in Williams Lake, BC, working in General Duty and First Nations policing. C/Supt. LeSage subsequently moved to the Northwest Territories in 2001 where he worked in the Fort Smith Detachment, then in several positions in Yellowknife with Major Crimes and Drug Section, as the Mackenzie Gas Pipeline Coordinator, and finally with Drug and Organized Crime Awareness Service.
In 2008, C/Supt. LeSage transferred to the Extra-Territorial Response Unit of the National Security Criminal Operations Branch in Ottawa. There he was the team commander on many significant terrorism investigations abroad, and used his subject matter expertise on legal applications to train RCMP and other national and international police members. C/Supt. LeSage went on to assume the role of Officer in Charge (OIC) of the Integrated National Security Enforcement Team where he was responsible for the all national security criminal investigations within the National Capital Region. In 2011, C/Supt. LeSage transferred to National Headquarters (NHQ) as the OIC of RCMP National Aboriginal Policing. In 2012, he assumed the role of Acting Director General of National Aboriginal Policing and National Crime Prevention Services.
In 2013, C/Supt. LeSage moved to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, and took on the role of OIC of Integrated Organized Crime North. He was responsible for all organized crime and economic integrity investigations for northern Saskatchewan.
In 2014 C/Supt. LeSage returned to the Northwest Territories as the OIC of Criminal Operations, where he was responsible for all policing operations in the NWT across 23 detachments serving 33 communities. In the summer of 2016, C/Supt. LeSage took on the role of Acting Commanding Officer of RCMP G Division (Northwest Territories).